July Update (Patreon)

Hello you exceptionally exceptional Patreon people!

I hope all of you are doing wonderful, that the weather is exactly as you like it and that all loot boxes you open all week only contain items of legendary rarity!

The Twilight Princess video is online and I’m quite happy with how it turned out!

The thing is the following: I think my newer videos are all perfectly fine videos and I really like them - however my older stuff had this certain silly lightheartedness, that I feel the newer videos somewhere lost along the way.

So when writing the Twilight Princess script I focused a bit on rediscovering this fast paced weird silliness and I think it ended up working! 

At least in my humble onion the script ended up being really well paced! 

The Twilight Princess video was in general one that had me a bit worried - I always knew what I wanted to waffle about when discussing Wind Waker and Majora, and I already have the core points of the Breath of the Wild and Skyward Sword video mapped out - but for Twilight Princess I only knew a couple of things I wanted to bring up before getting to work - so I’m doubly happy that the video turned out fine!

So that was the good news.

The bad news: Well, my beloved PC sadly left the world of the living while working on the video.

He entered the very not liminal realm of electronic scrap halfway through the cutting process.

Poor PC - but almost a decade of hard unpaid labor kind of does that to one I guess.

So my PC literally exploding (metaphorically) isn’t that big of a deal on its own.

At this point the PC had been causing problems for years and it was inevitable that I had to replace it at some point. It was also lacking a bit of calculating power for my modest editing needs - so I’m not too sad to finally replace it with actually capable hardware.

But.

A PC isn’t replaced in an afternoon.

It takes a couple of weeks.

So I had to get the project files off of my old PC (which is incredibly tedious if you don’t have an incredibly well organized file structures (which, as you already guessed - I obviously don't have)) and then I needed to cut the video on my wife’s laptop.

And my wife's laptop is a slightly sophisticated potato.

The entire fourth and fifth chapter of the video were edited on this hard calculating root vegetable - an experience I do not wish to repeat!

This delayed the video a couple of days and is also the reason why the editing in the second half lacks a bit of its usual sharpness - though I doubt many people even noticed.

Awesome.

And with this it is already time for our recurring patreon post tradition of making entirely new plans for the next couple of videos!

So please make sure to sit down because the next announcement might be so surprising it may otherwise knock you off your feet.
Because.

To everyone's surprise … the next video will actually be one of the videos I planned to do!

The next video will be about Paper Mario: “The Thousand Year Door”.

If everything goes as planned Celeste is next and afterwards we will hopefully discuss Echoes of Wisdom.

The Legend Of Zelda: “Echoes of Wisdom” is a game I was very much not expecting.

At this point I was honestly thinking that Nintendo is done with high profile switch releases and focusing all their efforts on the switch successor - but that is obviously not the case!

What little they have shown of the game so far looked incredibly intriguing and I can’t wait to get my hands on it. 

I plan to do a video on it directly after launch.

Maybe I end up doing a video about the new Mario and Luigi as well (depends a bit if the game ends up being really good (or really bad in an interesting way!)).

Finally, I had a couple of people ask me recently if I had any plans to do any Mario related content anytime soon and if I plan to do something over on the Gaming channel.

The answer is yes. 

My current plan is to wait for Nintendo to finally reveal the switch successor.

Whatever console succeeds the switch, it will almost certainly launch with a new 3D Mario game.

My plan is to do a trailer analysis (like we did for Mario Wonder) for the new 3D Mario game - whatever it ends up being - and afterwards to do a retrospective on all 3D Mario games - starting with Odyssey.

It just makes a lot of sense to revisit the Mario games while the hype for a new one is building.

Hooray!

The next video might take a bit longer than usual, because TTYD is a really beefy game, I’m on vacation for a couple of days while producing it and switching over to a new PC probably slows me down a bit until everything has settled - but it shouldn’t be a terribly long wait.

Finally - a gigantic and huge thank you to everyone around here.

The Subnautica video sadly ended up getting completely buried by the algorithm and I honestly wouldn’t know what to do were it not for your generous support.

A fuzzyfull thank you for this!